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[Android Head-Units] 01binary01:
Is n7player compatible with that Android version?

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Why do think only Russian people review these ? One of the first YouTube guys in this thread was English...

As for your other comments it really depends when you compare with what current retail HU can do and cost .. then you have to ask the b age old question... do I lead or follow.

Sure you can wait till the standards catch up or you can help mold the standard for the greater of others. Do you like to help the cause or want the applause?
[Android Head-Units] soinkster:
It depends on personal preference. I purchased the unit well aware of the nuances that came along with it. I am completely satisfied with the unit as I paid $305 shipped. Considering the features especially the micro sd card slot, I feel that price was a steal. I am sure that you could purchase a Kenwood or Pioneer unit that will address all of requests, but consider paying 4 times that price for comparable features but it would probably have a proprietary ui and os.

People expect a vehicle head unit to be a tablet replacement...

• The boot time is not that bad.

• The resistive screen is fine for pressing icons for selection, not so much for kinetic scrolling such as webpages.

• I was not able to load Adobe flash on the unit.

At this point my biggest gripe is the fact that when the unit boots, it always opens something even if you force close every application prior to shutting it down. For example my unit opens the EQ, Gmail, or Play Store each time it boots and I have to always press the home key to begin operation. If the unit booted to the home screen on each boot I would be completely satisfied.

Just my two pennies.
[Android Head-Units] Pop45398:
If the name of your iPhone's hotspot contains an apostrophe, which may be default for iPhones, it might not work, If so, try changing the name to something without an apostrophe.

Mine boots to the home screen as long as the last app I used is 3rd party, which is usually Power Amp. Now if I last used Aux input for my XM Radio, it will boot to Aux input.
[Android Head-Units] mojo-chan:
My main concern is that I will have to start the car and wait before setting off. I once had a Seat Leon as a rental car that took about 20 seconds to start and then you had to manually select map mode because it never remembered. It was really annoying.

I read that on some units the microphone doesn't work with voice input, which is a real disappointment for me because I don't want to fiddle around with an on-screen keyboard at an awkward angle when I can just speak to it.

Would you definitely say resistive screens are okay just for selection? If you watch the videos people put on up YouTube you will quickly lose count of the number of times they touch something and it doesn't get selected. We made a product with resistive touch screen at work wand watching people use it is like watching a child play with his Fischer Price "My First Tablet", awkwardly pounding away at the screen to make sure stuff gets selected.

Yes, see my comment about the Seat system. All I want is:

- Radio turned on

- Start network link to my phone/wifi

- Start speed camera warning app in background

- Start reverse camera app in background

- Start Dashcam app in background

- Run Navigation in foreground

In other words similar to what most built-in car systems do, only running the superior Android apps and using live data from the internet. I already have a phone for web browsing and email etc, and I don't do those things while I'm driving anyway.
[Android Head-Units] nook'r:
voice dialer does work, i extracted the voicedialer.apk from a CM7, most likely any CM7 apk will do, unless you are talking about the mic icon in the phone screen window, that one doesnt work. I also tried the contact.apk but it didnt work, reason my contact are not in alphabetical order.

I am still hoping for some ROM to install on the unit, CM7 will be fine to get the best tweaks and increase the performance and boot time of the unit.

P.S. anyone want to try and install apps, please make sure to backup your unit...
[Android Head-Units] ahdoublexl:
What we need is a custom recovery, like clockworkmod. This would give us a bit more flexibility in trying different roms without a big risk of bricking our units.
[Android Head-Units] greekstile:
Not necessarily. As long as you have a backup program, like Titanium Backup with all apps and setting backed up, and an SD Card with the rooted update files. If you run into issues, you can flash the update files from the SD Card and restore all apps/setting with Titanium.

It's not as neat and easy as a full recovery, but it does serve the purpose.
[Android Head-Units] Decapper:
This unit is good for me.

Download songs straight to unit with free music mp3 downloader. (Would be nice to go to sd card dir)

Vnc server is great droid one.

Works with all around camera great.

Weather in the car..

Rooted

I also got lucky and a old Bluetooth dongle works - EPoX bt-dg02. And an old USB hub tde system - GU2H-06

Don't mind the resistive screen. Works great if you use a little nail.

Some of the things ppl are complaining about are down right picky. In a perfect world my old fellow would still point up, but I make do with dropping it in.

If I was to complain about something on here it would be the radio reception is not as strong as the nissan connect. But not by much.

And I'd like to thank everyone that has made this possible.
[Android Head-Units] Decapper:
Don't bother trying to change the LEDs to red or anything as they are built into the buttons.

It would be quite easy to run an external mic.. Four screws and your off

If you also look the sd card slot on the left is just not connected.. On others it's for the map
[Android Head-Units] nook'r:
Nice work Decapper,,, more pics to see what is in Pandora box

quick question: anyway to add more support for the screen as i feel its a little bit loose by the corners? specially top right corner!
[Android Head-Units] treetrekker:
cp210x kernel module

I have been able to build the module for cp210x. If you need the module or build instructions you can PM me; I can't yet post the link due to forum rules.
[Android Head-Units] z18set:
6.2 inch capacitive screen 2.3.7

Hello, my English is not good, so this passage is Ggoogle translation.

Focus, I have a factory upgraded version of the whether version 2.3.7 capacitive screen can help ROOT.

It is responsible for selling Taiwan manufacturers to me
[Android Head-Units] Decapper:
You could stick something in there if its loose. Hard to get front board/screen into plate as the sd slot and mini USB is connected once in place.
[Android Head-Units] FADOOLY:
How did you re-flash your android unit

Hi Dear ,

I have done the same and i am jummed of what to do??

if you could help me with the way of re-flashing the redio, it will be appricated.
[Android Head-Units] Decapper:
Maybe use a pen on the reset on the front

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For the ppl that are setting their own logo.

I'm pretty sure they are APNG

Can't be bothered testing as you have to install a plugin for photoshop to view

/etc/logo/Audi.png.logo

Also remember seeing complain about phonebook. If you hold the phonebook button search feature comes up... Too easy
[Android Head-Units] tin2001:
Same concern I've got with the current offerings. 30 seconds is far too long for me due to living in a country town... Most of my trips are 5 minutes or less, so I'd either be forced to increase my trip times by a fair percentage, or be distracted by the freshly booted device while I'm actually supposed to be driving.

My current factory head unit boots up and starts playing music in around 7 seconds, and the Linux PC based music player I built for my old car booted to music playing in around 12 seconds. My brother's old car had an after-market Akai MP3 CD player, and it took around 30 seconds to play, so I know how weird it is to have music suddenly start up while driving down the road.

Do none of these units have a standby function like phones/tablets? Surely it couldn't be too hard to have it drop out to standby when the ACC line goes low, then wake up again when it goes high again. That would reduce "boot" time to 1 or 2 seconds.
[Android Head-Units] akurit:
This guy on the CA-FI thread already got it rooted I believe.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=36341686&postcount=45
[Android Head-Units] riahc3:
Might be intrested when Jelly Bean 4.2 is running on this.
[Android Head-Units] greekstile:
I sent him a PM with links to the image files and thus thread. Hopefully he is willing to take a stab at it.
[Android Head-Units] spazfishy:
Wow, good stuff on the rooting.. Hope it gets started.

Question: For the people using Pandora. When you turn the radio off while Pandora is open, then when you turn the radio back on does Pandora resume for anyone? On mine it says something funny about no video. I also wonder if this no video error is because I have the free version and it is trying to play an ad as it usually does on start up.

Does this work for anyone? Do you have paid version if so?
[Android Head-Units] lincolndroid:
Pandora

I was having the same weird thing with Iheart and Pandora, Because its trying to play a video ad before it resumes. I use slacker now....

On another note... Is there anyway I can get the preloaded apps back on my system...ie sygic and a few other of the preloads. Obviously mine have been deleted and since we don't have root yet i can't recover them...

Can someone send me the backups they may have? Will that work???
[Android Head-Units] MANDROIDS:
I use a much older version of Pandora 1.3 or 1.4 (google is your friend) ...seems much more stable....had too many issues with the latest version.

Also, thank you guys for all your efforts. Let's hope we get root and really get this radio going.

PS I can't be the only one here going crazy with the built in directory system and lack of speed dials.....

How are you guys making calls? Typing in the phone number on the dial pad each time or ???
[Android Head-Units] kirill.lrnv:
How are you guys making calls? Typing in the phone number on the dial pad each time or ???[/QUOTE]

I have no problem with phone book, I've downloaded my phone book from my iPhone5- everything works fine, all contacts are by the alphabet; same thing with Nokia E7. It can see incoming/outgoing/missed calls, everything is in the system. No troubles at all. Only trouble is: people on the other end don't hear me well.
[Android Head-Units] akurit:
i thought someone here hooked up an external mic somehow
[Android Head-Units] kirill.lrnv:
Somebody tried to share wi-fi internet from non-android device? I am having troubles connecting with iphone5 and Nokia E7; Galaxy S3 works perfectly. Thinking to get: "Pocket Hotspot E583C" but not sure. Please, post what do you connect the internet with?
[Android Head-Units] lincolndroid:
I have been using foxfi/pdanet app for wifi tethering on DROID bionic running ICS works great!!! No problems at all... haven't tried with I Phone...
[Android Head-Units] Jake Bullit:
I can connect via portable hot spot on my Android hd2.

No problem uploading contacts either.

Sent from my HTC HD2
[Android Head-Units] lincolndroid:
I'm still having the problem of playing media.. ie sd card, flash drive, or streaming media. The sound is there but the screen flashes to black and is unresponsive other than the volume and skip buttons, the music or sound keeps playing in the background. Not sure if it is a software/firmware problem. IT was working then started to act up a few weeks ago.

Please if anyone has any ideas to help. I have tried different media players, reflashing, factory settings, i'm running out of ideas. I am working with the supplier as well but havent got a fix yet... might be time to do the exchange...

Thanks to all!!!
[Android Head-Units] lincolndroid:
Gingerbreak??

Has anyone tried Gingerbreak to root? Or has anyone else been able to find a way to root yet?

Just checking.....
[Android Head-Units] dthomas1234:
I just got one of these and so far like it alot. The iPod interface does seem to have some issues though. Also, the eq app definately isn't as good as the one on the ca-fi. I am wondering if there is a way to get the ca-fi eq/crossover app onto this unit.
[Android Head-Units] kirill.lrnv:
WiFi issue

Thanks for replying, I finally got internet on the device by purchasing a: "Huawei Pocket Hotspot E586E" works great.
[Android Head-Units] XlipZ:
Has anyone tried using the steering wheel control (SWC) in this unit? It is like a P2 conection? I have a doubt if is necessary a "interface" to work on my car (opel corsa)
[Android Head-Units] greekstile:
Yes, and it works fine. However, you will need a unit like the Metra Axxess or PAC-SWI.
[Android Head-Units] lincolndroid:
Not all vehicles need the interface.. most swc work on voltages... I have mine connected direct to key1 on unit no interface... works great!!
[Android Head-Units] iherbivore:
I can confirm that Hondas (2012) work without an adapter. The vehicle had two key wires. I had to hook one of them to one of the stereo key wires and then I think I either grounded the other vehicle wire or fed it power. Maybe. I can take a look to find out for sure if anyone needs to know.
[Android Head-Units] Hal9k_:
Firmware with root and bluetooth OBD 2

hi everyone

I made a modified firmware for my Car Stereo TH8581 (is the same as Ouku) which adds root and support for external USB-Bluetooth adapters to connect Bluetooth ELM 327 (OBD 2)

This is a link: 4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=314557&view=findpost&p=19624233

Since it's difficult to me write in English, constantly checking with Google translate, I ask to kirill.lrnv translate my post on 4pda for English-speaking users.
[Android Head-Units] Pop45398:
Try placing correct firmware file in the root of your SD card and rebooting.
[Android Head-Units] urgodfather:
Are you saying that the SD card slot is ready to be connected? Have you connected your's and tested it?
[Android Head-Units] mojo-chan:
I built an Amiga based car computer years ago and that booted in about 8 seconds. I could stand a 30 second boot time if the unit didn't need any further interaction, i.e. it just resumed where it left off with the radio or music and with navigation on screen. Naturally it would have to connect to my phone via Bluetooth for internet access as well, seamlessly.

My old Sony CD changer took about 30 seconds to start, annoying but acceptable as it "just worked". The rental car I had where you needed to select map mode every god damn time it booted was incredibly annoying though.
[Android Head-Units] G2k0:
I think you are confusing the boot logo with the animated logo. The animated logos (aka the animated Android splash screen) is in a png format. The file(s) we are talking about is the on that appears unit first boots up. These are absolutely not png's or apng's.
[Android Head-Units] Dracogt:
2 din detachable android tab?

This appears to be the only thread on XDA about the ebay android decks, so has anyone seen or purchased the 2din android headunits that have a detatchable tablet? I'd post a link but my noob status is preventing me.

It would seem that since these have a built in 3000mah battery that they would not suffer from the boot up time issues (my biggest hesitation to purchasing) because they could just go into standby. I personally don't care for the tab detachment, but the boot times would be nice.

Any reason not to get this unit instead?
[Android Head-Units] Decapper:
That is correct. No I have not, not game. One slot is enough for me. I would fnd out from someone who owns a aftermarket unit that use the gps sd slot and see if it can be used as a normal sd slot.

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My nissan logo is animated.. Have you tried opening the logos in a APNG program editor?
[Android Head-Units] G2k0:
Yes I did. Like I said in my original post on this, despite the fact that the image is saved as <car model>.png.logo you cannot open it as a png. I actually tried opening it with gimp (with the apng plugin) and imagej. None of them were able to view the file. Even if it was an APNG file and without any plugins you should still be able to open it. You wont be able to see any animation but it would open. What I did find interesting is that I placed a copy of the file on my SD card and I did see it as a duplicate. I think what I'm going to try next is create a regular png file and see if it picks it up.
[Android Head-Units] G2k0:
File explorer has no root access???

Ok with respect to the logo it seems that I can proceed any further until someone answers a question I posted a few pages ago.

No matter what file explorer I use Superuser does not grant me root permissions to copy anything into the /etc/logo folder. Is there a fix for this?
[Android Head-Units] mister7000:
Did you try using Root Explorer ? Of course you have to be rooted.
[Android Head-Units] Pop45398:
...and set file system as R/W (read/write) instead of R/O (read only) in Root Explorer.
[Android Head-Units] lineyho:
I have flashed all three of Hals firmwares. Currently on 2.3.7. The 1st two versions worked great. I could not get an external bluetooth dongle to work with the 1st two versions though so I flashed the latest firmware of Hals 2.3.7. Wala ! The bluetooth dongle worked and I was able to connect my OBD2 bluetooth device. Great news ! Unfortunately when in any program, radio, or DVD the system will freeze if you press too many buttons or try to move within a program or from one program to another. A warning box will come up indicating that the current program is not responding, do you want to wait or force close. This will happen for any program you use. It may take a 1-2 minutes for the program to respond. If you keep pushing buttons the deck with freeze completely. I reflashed a couple time but the same problems happen. I'm going to reflash back to the previous version without the OBD2/bluetooth support if anyone does not know of a fix. Has anyone had this problem ?
[Android Head-Units] G2k0:
Yes I am using the latest rooted fw. I havent tried Root Explore (tried ES, file explorer & root browser lite). I'll give that a go and report back. Thanks guys ;)

UPDATE: I was able to somehow fix it. Dont remember if I had changed the setting at some point for superuser but I had it set to automatically allow apps to gain root access. When I flipped it to Prompt everything worked! Saving an image as a png and renaming the ext to .logo did not work. What was strange though is that it added the (I would guess default) Android boot logo. It makes me wonder now if the logos are actually .rle files? Hmmmm... more testing later
[Android Head-Units] SWEUP:
Is there anyone that have parking sensors on their car and got them working with this unit?
[Android Head-Units] nikecmh:
For ~$300, this radio rocks. Installed it fairly easily and everything went well. Boots up in about 20 seconds. Sirius streaming with my FreedomPop hotspot works. Only wish Analog TV was still around in the US :rolleyes:

My only gripe is and maybe I missed it is that when I get an incoming phonecall and the radio is turned up, it scares the hell out of me. Any way to turn down the bluetooth ringer? It's way louder than the current volume.
[Android Head-Units] Jake Bullit:
Yes,I have front and rear PDC ,and the graphic overlays fine.I also have a reverse camera currently set up on aux in.

I have the canbus.

A blurry video here,more related to reverse camera,but does show the PDC overlay briefly.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j7aa4dmb9Y[/YOUTUBE]
[Android Head-Units] SWEUP:
Thanks Jake, seams to be running nicely.
[Android Head-Units] nook'r:
Anyone figured out how to get the GPS app to start automatically when the unit boots?

i had no luck by editing the AndroidManifest.xml file, i received too many errors.

btw, pressing contact book icon doesnt pop no menu to organize my contact list.
[Android Head-Units] G2k0:
Bootanimation & boot logo

UPDATE: So been playing around with the boot logo but havent had much success. I seems that the file must contain other information in it. Without finding out how to decode/dissect the current xxxxxxxx.png.logo I'm afraid we wont be able to do much :(

Experiment - opened the original file in Photoshop as a raw image 360x300 (it would be a good idea here to rename it as a raw file). I pasted an image as a new layer and just saved the file (again as raw). The unit detected the file correctly but was still showing the original image (not the one I pasted). The good news is that you can just paste it on your SD card in the root folder! The HU will actually detect it despite the fact its not in the etc/logo folder!!!! That was a nice find ;)

Bootanimation

Now who wouldnt want a custom boot animation image to come up (other than the lame Android animated logo). Did a search on the unit and found the bootanimation file located in the system\bin folder. I found that strange because normally it resides on the system/media folder or data/local. Even stranger is the the bootanimation file in the system\bin is not a .zip. Its just called bootanimation! So I grabbed a bootanimation.zip file I have on my other devices and placed it in this location. Made sure I changed the permissions to match the original file. Renamed the original file and renamed my custom file to match the original (just removed the .zip).

The good news: It significantly reduced the boot time (almost by half!!!!)

The bad news: The custom animation just didnt work. Blank black screen. Tried putting it in the know folders I mentioned above. No joy.

If some master jedi out there wants to take a look at the original bootnamiation file, I'm attaching it below.

A few additional notes. Despite the fact that on the unit its not a zip file, I was able to rename it as bootnamiation.zip and unzip them. What I noticed was it had some files in it, 0, 1, 2 ... (the animation images) but they had no file extensions. Tried to rename them as a png. Couldnt view them. Last but not least, I noticed the file was also missing the desc.txt file. Anyway it would be nice to see if we can at least get this working.
[Android Head-Units] ahdoublexl:
Could we just remove the boot animation to reduce start up time?
[Android Head-Units] G2k0:
You could do that. I just renamed it.
[Android Head-Units] 01binary01:
You mean this one?

Dracoqt search for erisin 777a in YouTube you'll see the boot time of the pad etc or click on the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKyLMwPIfV4
[Android Head-Units] swiftmike99:
I just did that and there is no improvement in boot up time. the screen just stays black, which is ok, i wonder if I could delete the first boot logo too and just have a blank screen all the way through as my car is not supported.
[Android Head-Units] G2k0:
Do a reset on it. The black screen is normal because it cant find the bootanimaiton file. Mine took about 15 or so to boot up. If you delete the startup logo it may default to a generic Android one if it does not detect the default logo you had set. Just a heads up
[Android Head-Units] swiftmike99:
what do you mean a reset? turn off car and turn back on? did that 10 time already.
[Android Head-Units] G2k0:
There should be a reset button on the top right corner if your HU is like mine.
[Android Head-Units] tin2001:
Nice. I wonder if any other boot time reductions can be made. I'm fine with blank screen for 15 seconds... I'm probably not going to be looking at it anyway.

What program opened the "zip" file? Windows built in zip handler doesn't like it, so I assume it's actually something else (tar?).

Edit: Never mind... 7-zip opened it fine. It says it's an ELF file for ARM... In other words, a compiled binary program.
[Android Head-Units] mojo-chan:
WOW. That's horrendous. 55 seconds from pressing the button to get the home screen, and then on top of that however long it takes to start any apps.

This is what puts me off Android head units for now. They could be so good but are actually so terrible.